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Another band of heavy rain going thru at the moment. I don't think I'll have to worry about watering the lawn this week!!!

Nor the rest of the month!

It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi

Originally Posted by Carol

When I judge someone's integrity one key thing I look at is - How does s/he treat people s/he doesn't agree with or does not like?
I can respect someone who I do not agree with, but I have NO respect for someone who puts others down in a public forum. That is the hallmark of someone who has no integrity, and cannot be trusted.

It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi

Originally Posted by Carol

When I judge someone's integrity one key thing I look at is - How does s/he treat people s/he doesn't agree with or does not like?
I can respect someone who I do not agree with, but I have NO respect for someone who puts others down in a public forum. That is the hallmark of someone who has no integrity, and cannot be trusted.

VENUS, Fla. (CBS Tampa/AP) — A 3-year-old girl was found alive in her dead mother’s arms after the two were thrown hundreds of feet from their Venus home during a tornado spawned by Tropical Storm Debby.

Heather Town, 32, died Sunday when her Highlands County home was lifted off its foundation and she and her daughter, Anne Marie, were thrown 200 feet into nearby woods, according to multiple reports. The mother was found clutching the child, who survived.

“I am so proud of my daughter,” Elmer Town, Heather’s father, told WGRZ-TV. “I can picture her holding that little girl of hers. She died for her.” Town added that his granddaughter suffered a broken pelvis and broken ribs.

The two were covered in debris and barbed wire when found.

“When they found her, she was literally holding her baby, her little girl,” neighbor Kim Bass told WTVT-TV. “They took the little child from her because she was having a hard time breathing and she had barbed wire on her and was in a very dense section of woods, about 50 feet back there.”

Heather Town died at the scene. Anne Marie is currently in stable condition at Tampa General Hospital. >>>

“We’re not expecting the storm to intensify,” said Ernie Jillson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Tampa, early Tuesday. “We’re expecting it to stay a fairly weak tropical storm.”

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Its oftentime the tornadoes that "dance" around these storms that are the most prolific danger.

Yep, we had tornado warnings constantly for nearly 2 days. We had several waterspouts sighted
north and south of us.

Usually these twisters are weak F0 or F1s but they can still do a lot of damage to
mobil homes.

There was a older mobil home ripped apart not too far from us. No tornado but the
winds must have hit it just right. Looked like the carport was ripped off and then
their roof peeled away. Those things are deathtraps, the older ones are just POS.